diff --git a/providers/zendesk/pyproject.toml b/providers/zendesk/pyproject.toml
index 1256c7e27b2f0..e144c48e0b0e7 100644
--- a/providers/zendesk/pyproject.toml
+++ b/providers/zendesk/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.10"
 # After you modify the dependencies, and rebuild your Breeze CI image with ``breeze ci-image build``
 dependencies = [
     "apache-airflow>=2.10.0",
+    "apache-airflow-providers-common-compat>=1.7.4",    # + TODO: bump to next version
     "zenpy>=2.0.40",
 ]
 
@@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ dev = [
     "apache-airflow",
     "apache-airflow-task-sdk",
     "apache-airflow-devel-common",
+    "apache-airflow-providers-common-compat",
     # Additional devel dependencies (do not remove this line and add extra development dependencies)
 ]
 
diff --git a/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/hooks/zendesk.py b/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/hooks/zendesk.py
index 9c429dfa75398..dc8936ad69393 100644
--- a/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/hooks/zendesk.py
+++ b/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/hooks/zendesk.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 from zenpy import Zenpy
 
-from airflow.providers.zendesk.version_compat import BaseHook
+from airflow.providers.common.compat.sdk import BaseHook
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from zenpy.lib.api import BaseApi
diff --git a/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/version_compat.py b/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/version_compat.py
index 86366255bdf55..77f064add3732 100644
--- a/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/version_compat.py
+++ b/providers/zendesk/src/airflow/providers/zendesk/version_compat.py
@@ -31,21 +31,7 @@ def get_base_airflow_version_tuple() -> tuple[int, int, int]:
 AIRFLOW_V_3_1_PLUS: bool = get_base_airflow_version_tuple() >= (3, 1, 0)
 
 
-if AIRFLOW_V_3_1_PLUS:
-    from airflow.sdk import BaseHook
-else:
-    from airflow.hooks.base import BaseHook  # type: ignore[attr-defined,no-redef]
-
-
-if AIRFLOW_V_3_0_PLUS:
-    from airflow.sdk import BaseOperator
-else:
-    from airflow.models import BaseOperator
-
-
 __all__ = [
     "AIRFLOW_V_3_0_PLUS",
     "AIRFLOW_V_3_1_PLUS",
-    "BaseHook",
-    "BaseOperator",
 ]